Continued...
FEAR!:
Fear wasn't commonly found in Archin society, but now more than ever fear seemed to be the only this on the streets. LostHero looked of the reports, he now sat in the imperial hub since his return. the war was going sour, friends became untrust worthy and enemies earned greater trust. The Drengin seem ok to start with, but now they had shown signs of starting a war!
this concerned LostHero greatly.
The Altarian on the other hand had shown conern for our races safty and had given us a gift "starship defence"!
they had earn LostHeros trust.
the stress of running this empire had driven him to the edge of insanity. he felt like lash out at someone blades drawn and weapon armed, his hatred for the dreadies ever so strong. Satalites had taken pictures of ever upcoming battle, the pictures would help decid were we send our ships.
The Drengin lauched countless assaults.
Thalan defended their home system with a fleet code named 'The Hope'.
The Dreadies constantly attack Lost City, this is were we would need to send our forces.
2 Weeks later a report came in of a troop ship that was on an intercept course Lost City! LostHero knew all too well what the war had done to Treasurey, they simple couldn't pay the galactic builders to make a defence ships. this would mean every man women and able bodied child would have to fight! the dread lords were coming.
they would be here within the week.
Armor was made and weapons destributed amongest the population. LostHero went to his private chambers to prepare. his armor had been checked and his blades sharped, now all he needed was is gun and helmet. just before exiting the chamber he took a quick galance at his dread lord skull, it seem to be smiling, mocking him. he walked up to and quick as lightning snatched it of the bench. he would attack it to his shoulder plate, 'it will give the men hope' he thought to himself. then he heard a low humming as the dread lord ship passed over head, the time had come.
10 million againest 10 Billion seemed like over kill to LostHero, but he knew better. he stood, againest the councils better judgement, at the front of the of his armies.
the Battle began, pulsers fired countless shots at the oncoming armies and missiles blew away most the dreadies. but when the dread lords started fireing it was clear why most colonies had never fended of the dread lord scum. red lightning lanced out before them disabling huge carrier tanks and basicly cooking anyone it touched. LostHero charged forward angry swelling in him, he threw down his weapon and drew his Kyser Blade. he ran in slashing at any dread lord scum he could find, even when he had clamed so many lives his lust for revenge was unquenched. it went on like this for what seemed days. finaly the dread lords fell to the power of the Archin Upheaval. the battle was finaly won, but it had clamed over 5,000,000,000 Archin lives, too many as far as LostHero was concerned. now it was back to the space battles, fleets of our ship had already been destroyed, so a new ship was developed.
The Laser Corvette!
this was but a small upgrade for what was about to happen, the dread lord attacked our patrol group. they kept recording until the very end, apartedly they were using new tactics. the tri formation broke of as soon as the dreadies fired thus reducing the damage to all ships. the impressive display would certianly increase our chances of survival.
it was good to see that people were trying, even through all this termoil.
this was short lived though because now the Dread Lords were using DREADNAUGHTS! a single fighter fought the desperate fight not even leaving a scratch on it.
he was one of my best pilots.
i wasn't long before the Dread Lords struck again, this time taking Lost City!
LostHero barely escaped with his life.
Later that month a united planets meeting was aranged, the call was about where prisoners would be kept, which race will take them in and make them work in construction. Archin weren't about pass on an offer like this, free slaves to increase productivity.
the dreadies were indeed powerful. now the Archin Upheaval was down to it's last 2 planets rockra and silvernight. both wouldn't be able to resist an invation from the dread lords. were slow, but surely, dieing.
ever since the start of the war we have continously lost (not including invations), now was our first victory! though it was an unarm transport that was destroyed Archin felt proud of it.
now more than ever though the Archins need money! a small group of idolistic Archins clled themselved the galactic bankers and setup a small starbase close to the silvernight/Rockra sun.
the construction of this starbases increased our income, but this was just a small relief.
The Dreadies werent going to rest until all races were destroyed. it was decided that new fire power had to be found to combat the dread lords. the outcome of this new research was the classic fighter...
And gun corvette...
it was though this power that lead to the second win for the Archins, this time it was the death of a dread lord Escourt. a truly honourible win.
LostHero took this as a sign that we could win, science was pumping out new weapons so fast that they might yet have a chance of winning. Thanks to the new slaves productivity on both planets was increase allowing us to build many ships, thus LostHero ordered the creation of a second Imperial Fleet.
Now was to time to take the offencive, research reported that they had just finished planetary invation. thus a new ship was built, the Death Cruiser!
the dread lords seemed to be aware of this to since reports came in that a massive force was heading our way. it started with the destruction of the Galactic bankers. with the destruction of the massive structure income hit rock bottom.
but this was only the begining.
the imperial fleet enaged a small fleet of Dread lord fighters only to be destroyed.
this was the end, LostHero had no choice, a Colony cruiser was made and 500 million people evacuated. there were still billions stuck down on the planet but Lost hero could do nothing for them.
LostHero would never be the same after this...
the Archins would hide in the vacuum of space were dread lord wouldn't find them.
